Rail-joint.



1. JuH/isz & J. HORVATH.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16. 1914.

1 9 1&1 ,7 1 4, I Patented June 1, 1915.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. PHOTOJJTHOH WASHINGTON, D. C

man s'ra'rns Parana UFFEQF.

JOHAN JUnAsz AND JIM HonvA'rH, OFUSCALP LEVEL, 'PENNSYLVANIA.

BAIL-JOINT.

terlocked continuous formation without the employment of bolts or screws or other similar hold-fast devices. 7

A further object is to provide interlocking ends upon continuously arranged rails without adding to the usual rail construction but by eliminating certain parts of the end portions thereof for rendering the same 'complemental.

A still further object is to provide interlocking ends upon railway rails having a slidable inclosing member adjustably positioned upon the joint between the rails.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in'which like-designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of two rail ends connected together by the present improved joint. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken upon line IIIT of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view taken upon line IIIIII of Fig. 1. Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the end portion of one of the rails. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the end portion of the complementally formed companion rail in an inverted position, and Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the connecting housing or cover casing of the joint.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the end portions 10 and 11 of two similar rails are illustrated having tread portions 12 I Specification of Letters Iatent.

Patented June 1, 1915.

Application filed September 16, 1914. Serial No. 862,001.

and 13 respectively adapted to be positioned in horizontal alinement and forming a tread for the passage of the train thereover.

The rail end 10 has its tread 12 formed with an extension 14 projecting from the end of the rail and provided on its lower face with a vertically extending open socket 15. The rail end 11 has its tread 13 broken away at the end thereof and forming an end face 16 for the tread while the end of the web 17 of this rail end projects outwardly from the said end face 16 and is provided with a vertically extending lug 18.

The two end portions 10 and 11 are thus complementally formed so that the end 10 may be elevated slightly above the end 11 and the socket 15 placed over the lug 18 and with the rails in substantial alinement as illustrated in Fig. 1.

A housing 19 of the form shown in Fig. 6 is adapted to be slidably mounted upon either one of the rails before assembling and is then readily moved to a point spanning the joint between the two rails and covering the same as also shown in Fig. 1. The housing 19 is provided upon its opposite base portions 20 with notches 21 which are adapted to aline with the base notches 22 of the rail ends and whereby spikes, not shown, may be driven through the said notches and into the ties of the railway for securing the elements in position.

While the forms of the invention herein shown and described are what are believed to be the preferred embodiments thereof, minor changes may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claim.

What is claimed as new is i A device of the class described comprising two similar rails, one of the same having an end portion of its web cut away forming an extended tread portion, the said tread portion being provided with a rectangular socket in its lower face, said socket being wholly within the rail head and being of the width of the rail web, the other of said rails having an end portion with its tread cut away at the end thereof forming an extended web and base flange portion, the web porsaid web portion and adapted to seatingly In testimony whereof we aflix our signareceive the said socket thereover when the ttlres i1 presence of two itnesses; said mils are 111 lopgitudinalxiflinementwith 50:51AM

the treads and 'W'ebs"forming'a 'coiitinuous Y "JIM"'H'ORV1LTH. rail, and an inclosingv housing 'slidably' '"Witfiesses: A mounted u-pon'thesximibefid and engag- Loms WioK,

'ing the bases and Webs thereof. JOHANI KLIMEN'TL copies of this patent may be obtained for five oentsmh by addressing the "Commissioner 01 Patents, ewfishmgtongwm 

